Hello. Yes, it is nice to stir up the music business with a great album.

The album has become exactly what we wanted. "The Gasoline Solution" has been a very successful comeback album, but we wanted to go a step further. And in the end we actually succeeded.

Here, too, I can only give one answer: we had to take another next new step. High rollers have done a good job as a label with the "Gasoline"-record. But they are very focused on re-releasing old material, and we really wanted to focus on the new Darkness songs, so we looked for another label. An offer came from Massacre Records that, in principle, lets us do everything we wanted. Of course that is a very cool situation for the band, so we did not need to think twice.

To be honest, I do not believe that things are going up again for this planet. People are becoming ever more money-hungry, more and more aggressive towards their fellow human beings, and our children are no longer properly taught from an early age. The world is becoming more and more stupid and dumb.

I think the social decline is more than enough. You could write hundreds of albums for these topics.

We composed all the songs just as we did in the eighties. As in the past, we recorded all the songs ourselves in the studio. And thanks to our producer Corny we managed to get a nice authentic sound. Not overproduced, but real, hard and ass kicking. Of course, the recording technique has changed in recent decades, but it still gives you a wonderfully old-fashioned approach to the subject. Some may call this too modern, but actually we have taken another step towards real original sound.

I have to contradict you a bit. We had a lot of melodic elements in our songs back then. Two-voiced guitar solos, beautiful pickings, slow medium-tempo parts, all this has always existed on Darkness records. We probably just perfected it a bit, hahaha …

Olli was a kind hearted person. He did not have much but liked to share that little. And he had a lot of charisma. Unfortunately he was a bit like Jim Morrison. Everything that was possible to try on drugs, he had tried. He ultimately died of that, too soon, but with an announcement.

The old heroes slowly come off and new heroes move after. That's the way of things. Luckily, there are many young emerging bands that will eventually fill in the gaps. We have a good renewable scene here in our area and I am optimistic that I will still get good new metal music in the next twenty or thirty years.

Unfortunately we will not be able to play a complete tour for professional reasons. We have real-life jobs to pay our bills. Our main focus is therefore on individual club shows and various festival appearances.

And I want to thank you for your interest. And a big THANKS to everyone out there for their years of support and loyalty. Thrash till death !!!